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Uranus seems to change quite markedly from winter/summer to spring/autumn seasons; it has many more clouds now than it did when Voyager had its close encounter-
see here
http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/1/2 ... ry003.html
and here;
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/u ... 41110.html

I have made experimental textures from these images, and these are the results;




they are a bit stripy where they have been stretched, and the clouds are not in quite the right position, but they will serve nicely as extrasolar planets.

Three questions-
how do you make the rings more visible?
why are the images such different colours?
and three-
is there any known catch with this image hosting service I have discovered-
http://tinypic.com/

??

Yes; there does seem to be a problem; both images are the same... one should be blue, and one green.

I'll try again; for some reason the images are getting mixed up at Tinypic.com

This should be the blue one

Yeah, I would definately like to get Uranus to look like that last picture posted. So, just how do you get Uranus's rings more visible?

eburacum45 wrote:I'll try again; for some reason the images are getting mixed up at Tinypic.com

Try imageshack (in my sig)

Are you sure the differences in color you see are not due to the images being taken with cameras that capture different wave-lengths of light. The change seems too dramatic to be real.

Having a texture with the clouds / light patches would be nice though.